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This website has an excellent range of downloadable plans for mining town buildings if you are planning a coal mine or gold mine for your HO scale railroad, or for N scale or OO scale model railroads too. Simply download the paper models in easy to use PDF format and you are on your way to building an old mining town complete with original looking buildings of the era. The printable plans of mining town buildings assembled using fast drying clear glue or super glue. Materials used are inexpensive and can include: photocopy paper (about 1 cent a sheet), cardstock (or free card from cereal packs works wonderfully well), balsa wood, and/or corflute (can be purchased very cheaply from discount stores and DIY stores). The materials used are in many cases a personal choice for the rail modeler, but cereal box card and balsa is a popular choice of materials for modelers constructing these type of paper models in HO scale, in UK OO scale, or N scale.

If you are constructing a scale model mining town scene then there are plenty of photographs on the internet all featuring coal trains and coal yards. Even a lot of businesses used a coal fired energy source so there is plenty of scope for switching coal cars in your freight yards and taking them to the factories that can be set up with sidings so that coal cars can be left there for them to unload. That what makes model railroading so enjoyable. Every model railroad is different and there are so many different scales, scenery features, and structures to choose from, even this range of scale model mining town buildings to download and print using paper, card and balsa wood.

Download Plans For 7 “Authentic Looking” Mining Town Buildings Easily Made From Card and Balsa Wood

Adding a Coal Mine To Your Model Railroad

In the days of steam the biggest commodity that the railroads purchased was coal, and this could be mined locally or transported in by rail. So it stands to reason that if you wanted a business to have for your railroad, a coal mine or coal merchant would be a sensible choice, no matter what area you are modeling. Use steam locomotives, or diesel, pulled coal trains taking coal cars to the ports etc.

Construction Tips for Making Highly Detailed True to Life Mining Town Buildings from Downloaded Paper Plans

These download paper plans even include tips for creating the balsa wood supporting structure on the main mining chute building, including suggested adhesive and weathering techniques. (the plans for the paper models are downloadable, so balsa wood and other materials are not included).

The main chute building features a tall hoist house, and ore chutes for either rail or truck loading. The auxiliary buildings you position near or around the main mining chute structure are also very authentic in appearance and enjoyable to build. They could be used for a number of purposes such as accommodation for mine workers, perhaps a school, a site office, and some shacks for the hard working, often heavy drinking miners. The different buildings can be positioned together in several configurations, making the scene mining town adaptable to fit the individual requirements of your layout be it HO scale, or another scale such as OO gauge or perhaps N scale.

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